Should Animals be used for Testing New Drugs & Medical Procedures?

Hi,

Yes. I will agree with it. Because, now a days the population and the no of diseases are increasing proportionally. And to cure those there is a need to discover new drugs and medicine. So, a host has to be there for conducting the experiments. Its not fair, to have human as a host. Obviously, we need to choose any animal that's have the same living conditions for the specific drug. If its the animal there won't be any problem, because we have so many techniques for reproducing them. If there is any mismatch we can go for another one. By considering the ecosystem it is suggestible to experiment the animals which are plenty in number.

I think it's ok to use animals to test products, etc, but we should do so in a sensible way.

Also, I think many people are ill-informed on this platform - when we talk about using animals to test drugs, it is not done in a cruel way that you may imagine it to be.

Usually, the animals are sedated and given the best possible care.

There are many restrictions in place which make sure that the animals are not misused and to make sure any pain is taken away as much as possible.

Without animal testing, we would never know if drugs, etc. Would be safe.

There is virtually no method that is as accurate an animal testing.

That's all. Thanks.

Animals should use in testing medical procedures. Because there are a lot of correlations between animals and humans including homologous genes, neurology, and molecular biological. This all comes from having a common ancestor and genes that have been retained though out generations. We have tested and found the best animals to test on and do so ethically through a progression starting with tissue cultures, then moving to mice, monkeys, and then chimpanzees before humans and more often than not these so-called tests have proved wrong and many drugs have been taken off the market. That's what animal testing is for.

The use of animals in testing medicine and drugs looks very cruel and inhuman because most of the time the innocent animals suffer and die. But there were no other options in the past for researchers to test those new drugs and chemical products. Now as the medical science has developed so much I think scientists should think about new options and minimize the use of animals as much as possible for this purpose. Also, test results on animals not always same for humans.

I have an idea which many of you may not agree if 'convicts who are sentenced to death' can be used for this kind of testing.

Thanks.

Sad to say but yes animals should be used for drug tests.

Someone should be used for drug tests to study their effects and they are not humans because we are from human species and obviously partial towards ourselves.

So if you have an terrible disease and want a medicine would you take medicine without knowing it works or kills in some cases?

No right?

So they are the test subjects so that there is no harm to us.

Here it can't be totally prevented but the ones performing experiments should take as many precautions and antidotes as possible to save that poor creature if it is going to kill them.

Good morning my dear friends.

I want to say that animal should be used in the laboratory because our scientist use some animal and saves a million of people and animal life and scientist learns many things and they discover new medicine and drugs which is very helpful for the animal and human race but I want to say that keeping all things in my mind that there should be low loss and harm animal life. Nowadays our scientist uses the animal because there is no another option to examine the drugs side effects and by this, our scientist and doctor reduce the side effects of drugs and saves human life.

From Feeling point of view, I will say NO. Because every animal is having same feeling as human being. The only thing is that they can not express it like us.

We can have some clones on which we can do experiments. Because, these clones are made by us only. And we have the right to destroy something which we have created. Not for the things which we have not created.

But from cloning point of view, it is not a simple cup of tea to produce a clone. And we can not experiment on human beings. So, Yes, animal can be used for testing new drugs and medical procedures. That's all.

All of us has given our point of view and all of us are thinking that whatever we wrote or whatever we think is totally right. But I want to question, one, who wrote that animals should not be used for medicinal purposes. The person who support this statement, what are you thinking?

If we would not utilize animals for the development of new medicines then how would we able cure the spreading diseases. If we would not utilize animals then on whom shall we do experiments? I think you all don't even realize that we the humans consume more animals than animals used for testing.

I think there is nothing wrong in conducting new tests on animals.In a way its helping to find new useful drugs which saves many peoples life....and even humans have hearts they don't conduct tests on all the animals ... they test it usually on smaller ones like rats which are of no use to this society except in spreading disease.... so if testing some drugs is saving precious human life then why not...almost 75% of humans are non vegetarians and they use animals for eating.. then if testing drugs on animals is helping medical science improve its definitely worth it:)

Hello people!

I'm Devika, a biotechnology student!

I do agree with you guys but the thing is we so far can treat the diseases due to the production of drugs! As per my knowledge, very few animals are being used for experiments not all of them and mostly for drugs rabbits and mice are used especially the white mice which are genetically produced! So, I guess it's not wrong but I do even agree that we are harming but it's not a big deal! I hope further technology can be improved so that it can be digitalized and can still more reduce the use of animals for research!